Monthly Archives: July 2017

Following up on our recent CCT Food Cultures event at Focal Point Gallery, CCT/Cultural Engine/UEL and a number of significant community groups met at Southend Borough Council yesterday to propose the Southend Food Plan. Here are the 10 agreed objectives.

Next meeting is in Oct – get in touch if you feel you can contribute to any of the areas of interest.

A Food Plan for Southend:

Ten Objectives

Form a Southend Food Partnership to increase levels of collaboration, sharing of resources, knowledge and experience

Join the Sustainable Food Cities movement

Work towards the eradication of food poverty

Influence Public Health – increase a broader perception of Food as Culture. Aim to reduce obesity and diet-related ill health through re-examining relationships with food and how to improve them

Bring people together through food projects – collaborative cooking in communities, and creating links between cooking and growing schemes

Support community growing projects and use of the wild harvest

Develop an inclusive, vibrant local food and drink economy (support local producers, tourism and ‘sense of place’)